When David Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour arrived in West Berlin on June 6, 1987, the city was the world’s de facto capital of ...
East German police and soldiers sealed the most frequently used border crossings between East and West Berlin with barbed wire. Soviet troops began to replace the wire with a concrete wall.
Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...
So much so that the incoming government, with about 60 percent pro-crypto members, might consider bitcoin as a solution to a $35 trillion national debt crisis. From President-elect Donald Trump ...
The Sony Center in Berlin stands in the high-sheen Potsdamer Platz, where the Wall had split the city ... Updated July 8th—The long-rolling crisis over Greece’s indebtedness is now reaching ...
In the wake of the crisis on the Poland-Belarus border ... Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now 1,800km of walls and fences either built or under construction ...
I’m not here to reiterate the obvious, but think Berlin Wall, nuclear proliferation, duck and cover, the Cuban missile crisis, the space race to the moon, the satellite Sputnik. These are a few ...
The crisis started to end when the Soviet Union decided not to ... THE FALL OF THE WALL The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9th 1989, marked one of the most significant events of the 20th century ...
Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...
Construction of the “Berlin Wall Trail” (Berliner Mauerweg) began in 2002 and was completed in 2006. The Senate Department for Urban Development (Directorates I and VII) is the “Berliner Mauerweg” ...